Kamar de los Reyes, a Puerto Rican actor greatest recognized for enjoying the police officer Antonio Vega within the cleaning soap opera “One Life to Live” and for voicing the villain Raul Menendez within the online game franchise “Call of Duty,” died on Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 56.
He died of most cancers, in line with Lisa Goldberg, the publicist for his spouse, the actress Sherri Saum.
De los Reyes was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Nov. 8, 1967, to a Cuban father, Walfredo de los Reyes, and a Puerto Rican mom, Matilde Pages. He described himself as coming “from a family of musicians”: His two brothers and father had been acclaimed percussionists, and his grandfather was a well-known trumpeter.
De los Reyes was raised in Las Vegas and, after highschool, moved to Los Angeles to pursue performing. However his first large break was in New York, the place he took on the function of Pedro Quinn within the Off Broadway play “Blade to the Heat,” a efficiency The New York Instances described in 1994 because the present’s “most arresting.”
“More than any words he utters, the actor’s haunted eyes, sunken cheeks and shaved head convey the extent of Pedro’s torment,” David Richards, The Instances’s theater critic, wrote. “In repose, he’s almost spectral. In the ring, he’s like a short circuit, and his silent scream of triumph is a guaranteed spine-tingler.”
In his longest-running and maybe most generally recognized function, he was a gangster-turned-police officer, Antonio Vega, within the cleaning soap opera “One Life to Live.” De los Reyes appeared in practically 300 episodes from 1995 to 1998 and from 2000 to 2009. After his character is launched from his jail sentence for homicide expenses when it’s revealed he was performing in self-defense, he turns into a police officer and has a collection of romantic entanglements.
The present, which ran from 1968 to 2012 totally on ABC, was groundbreaking for its various forged, together with the first Black actor to play a lead function on daytime tv.
In a 2007 interview with City Latino journal, De los Reyes mentioned of the present, “We’re one of the few soaps that has an all-Latino family, a Puerto Rican family, which you don’t see much of, not only on daytime but prime time television overall, and is something I feel network television needs to work harder on.”
“I think ‘One Life to Live’ has done a formidable job of that,” he added.
De los Reyes additionally voiced the villain Raul Menendez within the 2012 online game “Call of Duty: Black Ops II,” in addition to “Call of Duty: Black Ops 4” and “Call of Duty: Vanguard.” His character is commonly thought to be one of many franchise’s greatest villains.
On the time of his demise, he was filming the CW sports activities drama “All American” and had lately shot roles within the forthcoming collection “Daredevil: Born Again” and the miniseries “Washington Black,” in line with his spouse’s publicist.
De los Reyes is survived by his spouse, Sherri Saum; his three sons Caylen, Michael and John; his brothers Daniel and Walfredo Jr.; his sisters Lily and Ilde; and his mom and father.
